On July 26, 2023 I joined local poets and wordsmiths for a very special Wednesday Night Poetry (WNP) at Kollective Coffee+Tea , nestled in the heart of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Join Noumenist poet Jason W. Johnson as he launches his second collection of poetry The Night Watches, with Foreword by yours truly SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 AT 2 PM Eastern • Book Launch for THE NIGHT WATCHES • Sunrise Books • High Point, North Carolina.
Another paper of mine entitled “The Destabilizing Cybernetics of Implausibility: The Anti-Anthropocentric Crisis” was published this month in Cybernetics & Human Knowing 26, nos. 2-3: 169-190. In it, I use an analysis of my own creative process to formulate the hypothesis that a feedback loop connects the music composer, the composition, and its percipients, moving them gradually away from humanocentricism.
The distinguished attendees of the American Society for Cybernetics 2017 Conference (where I gave a lecture/recital featuring my own works) define resilience as the ability to respond to change. Scott M. Harris, founder of Recursionist Publishing, is one of these people. “Beneath this is a form of reason based not only on logic but also on...beauty,” he says.
What a conference! Applying the Existential Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to Performance and Stage Fright! Cellular Pivots as a New Means of Progression in Post-Tonal Music! Audience, Performance, and Compositional Considerations in Electroacoustic Composition! Art Song Settings of Poetry of William Butler Yeats!
